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MS. Lat. misc. c. 17

Summary Catalogue no.: 30567 (fols. 1–3 only)

Guardbook of fragments

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Initial on fols. 82–83. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 571)

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Taken from the bindings of printed book and manuscripts unless otherwise stated.

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 1

Contents

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment

History

Origin: mid-14th cent. ; English

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 2

Contents

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 14th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 3

Contents

(fol. 3)
Document, dated 5 March 1549
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 1549 ; French

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 4

Contents

(fol.4)
Text on the seven virtues
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: one leaf

Layout

22 long lines

History

Origin: 14th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 5

Contents

(fol.5)
Inventory
Language(s): Latin
(fol.5)
List of knights holding lands at Wimbledon
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: two scraps

History

Origin: 15th cent. ; English

Provenance

Given by R. L. Poole , 1915

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 6

Contents

(fol.7)
Theological work (end of)
Language(s): Latin
(fol.7)
Scribal verses
Incipit: Scriptoris pueri vitam dignare tueri
Colophon: Conradus de Cella me scripsit
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of a leaf

Layout

45 lines

History

Origin: late 12th cent. ; German

Provenance

Given by F. W. Haldinstein

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 7

Contents

(fol.10)
Letter from Theodore Beza to Thomas Erastus , professor of medicine at Heidelberg,

dated Geneva, 18 Dec., 1569

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 1569 ; Swiss, Geneva

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 8

Contents

(fol.11)
Medical work
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: one quaternion

Layout

2 cols., 46 lines

History

Origin: 13th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 9

Contents

(fol.15)
Bartolus de Sassoferrato, Comm. on codex,

8. tit.2.1 - tit.7.14 (ed. Basel, 1562 pp.747–771)

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: parts of five leaves, fol.17, 18 and 19, 20 being consecutive

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 15th cent. ; German

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 10

Contents

(fol.21b)
Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae,

portions of bks.I–IV

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: fragments of twenty leaves

History

Origin: late 15th cent. ; French

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 11

Contents

(fol.41)
Averroes, Comm. on Aristotle, Metaphysics

IX.2–3

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: one leaf

Layout

2 cols., 26 lines

History

Origin: 13th–14th cent. ; French

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 12

Contents

(fol.42)
Letter from Christian Rave (Ravius) to J. Moriano ,

dated 1607; according to the endorsement, sent with an Arabic MS. of the Conics of Apollonius Pergaeus

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 1607

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 13

Contents

(fol.44)
Testimonial of thanks of the university of Paris to Pierre de la Martilière , advocate, for pleading its case against the college of Clermont,

dated 1612, and signed by the rector Pierre Hardivillier. For Martilière see É. Chatelain, Bibliographie de l'ancienne université de Paris, Revue des Bibliothèques I (1891) p.319

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 1612

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 14

Contents

(fol.45)
Computistic work
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of a leaf

History

Origin: 14th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 15

Contents

(fol.46)
Commentary on Decretals

V tit.27.5–8

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of a leaf

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 14th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 16

Contents

(fol.47)
Judgement of Johannes Ner provost of St. Peter's, Basle in a dispute at Schlettstadt, 1450
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: one leaf

History

Origin: 1450

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 17

Contents

(fols. 53–4)
Alexander de Villa Dei, Doctrinale,

lines 1–61 and 434–494

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: bifolium

Layout

30 long lines

History

Origin: 14th cent.

Provenance

Removed from MS. Hamilton 48.

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 18

Contents

(fols. 55–6)
Alexander de Villa Dei, Doctrinale,

lines 658–62

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: strip of a bifolium

History

Origin: 15th cent.

Provenance

Removed from MS. Hamilton 25.

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 19

Contents

(fols. 57–8)
Avicenna, Metaphysics

II tract.3.4–6, with marginal notes

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: inner bifolium

Layout

41 long lines

History

Origin: 14th cent.

Provenance

Removed from MS. Hamilton 58.

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 20

Contents

(fol.59)
label
Rubric: Astrolabium planum in tabulis ascendens
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 15th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 21

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 22

Contents

(fol.60)
Gratian, Decretum

I. dist.54.5–21 with glossa ordinaria

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of a leaf

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 13th–14th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 23

Contents

(fol.61)
Decretals

II tit.28.47–51

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: one leaf

Layout

2 cols., 44 lines

History

Origin: 13th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 24

Contents

(fol.62)
Decretals

IV tit.2.2–11 with glossa ordinaria

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: one leaf

Layout

2 cols., 45 lines

History

Origin: 13th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 25

Contents

(fol.63)
Decretals

IV tit.18.1–5 with glossa ordinaria and other glosses added

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of a leaf

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 13th cent. ; Italian

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 26

Contents

(fol.64)
Decretals

V, parts of tit.1.26–6.6 with glossa ordinaria

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: strip of a bifolium

History

Origin: unknown

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 27

Contents

(fol.66)
Bernard of Parma, Apparatus to the Decretals

V tit.36.3–37.3

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of a leaf

Layout

long lines

History

Origin: 15th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 28

Contents

(fol.67)
Justinian, Institutes

II tit.9.5–11.1

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of a leaf

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: late 13th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 29

Contents

(fol.68)
Justinian, Codex

VI tit.24.14–26.3 and tit.42.24

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: two strips

Layout

49 lines

History

Origin: 14th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 30

Contents

(fol.70)
Justinian, Codex

VI tit.29.2–30.19 with Accursian and other glosses

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of a leaf

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 13th–14th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 31

Contents

(fol.71)
Justinian, Digest

II tit.14.32–44, with Accursian gloss

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: one strip

Layout

2 cols., 34 lines

History

Origin: 13th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 32

Contents

(fol.72)
Justinian, Digest

XII. tit.1.9–23 and 25–31

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: two strips

Layout

2 cols., 50 lines

History

Origin: 13th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 33

Contents

(fol.74)
Justinian, Digest

XII tit.2.9–28 with glosses in different hands

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: one leaf

Layout

2 cols., 52 lines

History

Origin: 13th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 34

Contents

(fol.75)
Justinian, Digest

XXXIV tit.7.1–9.5 with Accursian gloss

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: one leaf

Layout

2 cols., 45 lines

History

Origin: 13th–14th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 35

Contents

(fol.76)
Aegidius de Columnis, De regimine principum

III.2.29–30

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: one leaf

Layout

2 cols., 37–9 lines

History

Origin: 14th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 36

Contents

(fol.77)
Commentary on Peter Lombard, Sentences, I,

relating to the definition of theology, and incorporating arguments of Aegidius Romanus and John Baconthorpe

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: one leaf

Layout

2 cols., 58 lines

History

Origin: 15th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 37

Contents

(fol.78)
Medical treatise
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: one strip

Layout

50 lines

History

Origin: 13th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 38

Contents

(fol.79)
Medical treatise
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of a page

History

Origin: 14th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 39

Contents

(fol.80)
Alexander de Villa Dei, Doctrinale,

lines 2395–2416 and 2423–44,

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of a leaf

History

Origin: 13th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 40

Contents

(fol.81)
Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda Aurea,

ch.90, 91

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: one strip

History

Origin: 14th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 41

Contents

(fol.82)
Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda Aurea,

ch.5, 6, and 9

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of a bifolium

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 13th cent. ; English

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 42

Contents

(fol.84)
Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum Historiale,

bk.15.74–7

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: one strip

History

Origin: 14th–15th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 43

Contents

(fol.85)
Canon law treatise
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of one leaf

History

Origin: unknown

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 44

Contents

(fol.86)
Grammatical text in verse,

in hexameters, with interlinear glosses in English

Language(s): Latin and English

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: four leaves

History

Origin: 16th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 45

Contents

(fol.90)
Commentary on Digest

XXVII tit 7.6

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of a leaf

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 14th cent. ; Italian

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 46

Contents

(fol.91)
Deed
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of a leaf

History

Origin: 15th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 47

Contents

(fol.92)
Deed
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of a leaf

History

Origin: 15th–16th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 48

Contents

(fol.93)
Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda Aurea (fol.93) ch.CXVII, ed. Graesse p.492; (fol.95) ch.CXIX, p.510; (fol.97) ch.CXX, p.529; (fol.99) ch.CXXIV, p.548; (fol.101) ch.CLXXXII, p.853
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: eight leaves and a fragment

Layout

2 cols., 41 lines

History

Origin: 14th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17 – Part 49

Contents

(fol.102)
Gratian, Decretum

I dist. 31.4 - dist.32.3

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of a leaf

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: first half of the 12th cent.

Provenance

From the binding of 8oTh.Z.423.

Additional Information

Record Sources

Typescript description by Bodleian Library staff

Abbreviations

View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.

Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.